Beef with prunes in a slow cooker is a dish that can be safely classified as a quick, tasty and healthy meal. Prunes saturate the meat with aroma and unusual taste. Consider some interesting and easy-to-follow recipes.

• To make the beef juicy, you need to stew it for at least 90 minutes. And if the meat is "old", the cooking time should be increased.
• In the process of stewing beef, it is important to monitor the gravy: if it boils away, you need to add a little water.
• Spices will add an unsurpassed flavor to the meat: ground pepper, dried basil, paprika, etc.

Juicy beef with exquisite taste

How is beef with prunes cooked in a slow cooker? Its recipes are varied, and we will start, perhaps, with the simplest. You can change the amount of spices depending on your taste preferences. It is better to buy prunes in jars, since the product is already washed and dried in them, as well as pitted. Don't be lazy and pre-marinate the beef overnight. As a result, the meat will be juicy and tender.

Compound:

• 0.8 kg beef fillet;
• 2 onion heads;
• 200 g prunes;
• 2 tsp ground black pepper;
• 2 tsp dried basil;
• 2 tsp dried parsley;
• 100 ml filtered water;
• salt.

Cooking:

• Rinse and dry the beef, and then cut into equal and not too large pieces. Put the meat in a deep bowl.

• Peel the onion and cut into half rings, add it to the beef. A little secret: the more onions, the more juicy the meat will be. Proceed from such calculations: for 1 kg of beef you need two large onions.

• Season the meat with onion, basil, pepper and parsley, salt and mix.
• Cut the prunes into several equal parts. If you have prunes with pits, they must be removed by cutting each berry.

• Add prunes to the rest of the ingredients, cover the bowl and send it to the refrigerator overnight.

• After the allotted time, you can proceed directly to cooking. We shift the contents of the bowl into a multi-bowl.

• We add water. Attention: it is better to add the liquid slowly during the cooking process, if necessary, but do not overdo it at the beginning, so as not to get a soup instead of a meat dish.
• On the multicooker, we set the “Extinguishing” program and wait an hour and a half.
• At the sound signal, leave the meat in the multi-bowl for another 10-15 minutes, and then serve it to the table.

Tender beef with prunes stewed in a slow cooker

And here's another one interesting recipe cooking beef in a slow cooker. It differs in that at first we lightly fry the meat, and only then we will stew. By the way, you can fry meat in the usual way in a pan.

Compound:

• 0.8 kg of beef pulp;
• 1.5 tsp potato starch;
• 1 tsp soda;
• sifted flour for breading;
• a mixture of spices;
• refined vegetable oil;
• 2 onion heads;
• 200 g prunes;
• lemon;
• salt.

Cooking:

• Prepare the beef: rinse, dry and cut into medium pieces.
• Salt the meat and season with your favorite spices. You can add dried herbs.
• Now add soda and starch and pour the meat with freshly squeezed lemon juice.
• Mix everything and marinate the beef for at least 2 hours in the refrigerator.
• In the meantime, prepare prunes and onions. We cut the berries, peel the onions and chop them into half rings.
• In vegetable oil, fry the beef until golden brown in the “Frying” program, pre-breading it in flour.
• Then be sure to wash and dry the multibowl. We spread the fried beef in it, add onion, prunes and a little filtered water.

• Cooking a meat dish in the "Stew" program for two hours.
• Before serving, garnish the beef with sprigs of fresh herbs.

Aromatic beef with vegetables

So, today we have stewed beef with prunes on the menu. Its recipe in a slow cooker, as we have already seen, is quite simple and does not require much time. We offer another version of this dish. We will stew beef with vegetables, so it can be safely served at the table as a second. By the way, from the indicated amount of ingredients you get six servings. And one more thing: even those who adhere to a dietary diet can safely feast on such a dish, because it energy value is 215 kcal per 100 g.

Compound:

• 0.5 kg of beef;
• 15 g prunes;
• large carrot;
• large head of onion;
• 1-2 tomatoes;
• 1 st. l. tomato paste;
• 1 multi-glass of filtered water;
• 2 leaves of laurel;
• salt;
• ground black pepper;
• refined vegetable oil.

Cooking:

• Prepare the meat: rinse and pat dry. Cut the beef into neat medium cubes. Attention: if you stew large pieces, the meat may turn out to be a bit dry.
• We set the “Frying” program on the device and cook the meat in vegetable oil until golden. We do not close the lid and periodically stir the beef. For this purpose, the "Baking" mode is also suitable.

• At the same time, we will prepare the vegetables: peel and rinse them. You can cut the onion at your discretion - either into small cubes or thin half rings.
• Cut the carrots into beautiful thin circles.

• We spread the onion in a multi-bowl and fry together with the meat for 5-7 minutes, then add the carrots. Fry everything together for another 4-5 minutes.
• A little secret: if you want to add spice to the dish, put chopped celery root to taste along with carrots.
• Wash and dry the tomatoes. It is better to choose meaty tomatoes. Let's cut them into small pieces.

• We will prepare prunes in the way we already know.
• We spread the tomatoes, prunes and tomato paste in a multi-bowl and mix.

• Salt the dish, season with pepper and spread the laurel leaves.
• Add the given amount hot water and set the “Extinguishing” program on the device for an hour and a half.
• To set off the taste of beef with prunes, decorate the finished dish with chopped fresh herbs.

Do you want to surprise your family members? Cook beef with prunes. A slow cooker will make your cooking process easier. Cook with pleasure and bon appetit!

Time: 70 min.

Servings: 4-5

Difficulty: 3 out of 5

Juicy pork stewed with prunes in a slow cooker

The tradition of cooking meat with fruit came to us from Asia. And we quickly mastered the recipes meat dishes with the addition of sweet and sour fruits. Asian cuisine is replete with such dishes, and the combination of chicken and pineapples, beef and apples, pork and prunes no longer seems wild.

From the category of festive dishes, meat with fruits has moved into the category of everyday. Pork with prunes in a slow cooker can just be considered one of those. I call these recipes "weekend cuisine".

During the working week, there is rarely time to create something sort of, original and not beaten, and on weekends you can always take an hour to prepare a simple but very tasty meal.

And finally, the little things: salt, pepper, garlic and spices. Here preference is given to those spicy herbs that you love and use.

Now let's move on to the culinary miracle.

Step 1

Prepare prunes. It needs to be washed well. If the fruits are large, you can cut them into halves. Leave small dried fruits whole.

Step 2

Now let's cut the meat. Cut the pork into pieces or strips. Choose the form that suits you best. Don't forget to remove excess fat!

Grind the meat slices with salt and ground pepper.

Step 3

Preparing meat dressing. For her, put in a bowl olive oil, wine or cognac, add lemon juice, mustard, 1 clove of grated garlic. Mix thoroughly and sprinkle with spices and pepper.

Now you can pour the pork with this sauce, let it marinate.

Step 4

Let's get to the vegetables. We clean and wash the onion. Cut into pieces or strips. It is more logical to chop vegetables in the same style as meat: if the pork is diced, then chop the onion in the same way. Onion half rings are suitable for meat strips. If you use carrots, follow the same cutting rules.

Step 5

Put the pork into the bowl of the multicooker along with the sauce, pour the onion and add the prunes, mix everything.

We set the slow cooker to the “meat” mode, if there is one, or to “stewing”. The cooking time depends on the functions of the oven. A multi-cooker-pressure cooker will make a dish in 25 minutes, a regular one in 1 hour.

Pork with prunes in a slow cooker will be loved by all family members, because the dish is tender, juicy and insanely delicious! The piquant sweet and sour shade of fruit in the meat makes the recipe original and refined.

It is customary to serve meat to the table with a side dish and herbs. Or you can replace rice or potatoes with a light vegetable salad, the choice is yours!

See another version of this dish in the video below:

Stewed meat can be prepared in a variety of ways. For example, in a cauldron on a fire, in an oven or on a stove. But I prefer to cook in a slow cooker, it is very convenient and fast. One of the main advantages of this household appliances- this is the fact that nothing ever burns in it.

Recipe for beef stew with prunes in a slow cooker

Necessary utensils and equipment: multicooker, knife, spoon and cutting board.

Ingredients

How to choose ingredients

• The taste of your dish depends on the quality of the meat. good, fresh beef should be deep red. If it contains blotches of black or green, then the meat is stale. A brownish color means that the meat is from an old animal and is more likely to be tough.
• The color and texture of the fat can also tell a lot about the quality of this product. It should be white and dense, if the fat is yellowish, then the meat will be tough. The pink and red hue of the fat indicates that the meat was treated with a manganese solution. It gives the meat a beautiful and saturated color makes it look fresher. But at the same time, manganese colors in pink color fat and bones. By itself, a manganese solution is harmless, but if they began to process meat with it, it means that it is stale.
• Quality meat on the cut can be moist, but in no case sticky. The smell is one of the main criteria when choosing this product, it should be neutral. If you notice an unpleasant odor, even a slight one, do not buy this product.

• When drying dried fruits, unfortunately, chemicals are often used. When choosing prunes, pay attention to its appearance. Oddly enough, the worse it looks, the more natural it is. Prunes should only be black with a matte surface. The shiny skin suggests that it has been processed with fats of dubious origin. The prunes should look like they dried naturally on the branch. The smell of smoke prunes acquires when smoked. Ideally, it should be smoked in a good smokehouse on quality wood from fruit trees. But often it is treated with liquid smoke. Unfortunately, you will not be able to determine the method of smoking this product without a special laboratory analysis.

Step by step recipe

1. Rinse 500 g of beef and cut it into small pieces.
2. Chop 1 medium onion.
   
   
3. Set the multicooker to the "frying" mode. In a heated bowl, pour 1.5 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.
   
   
4. Cut 100 g washed prunes into strips.
   
   
5. Place the beef in the slow cooker and fry until it brightens.
   
   
6. Add the chopped onion and saute for another 5-6 minutes until the liquid has evaporated.
   
   
7. Then add chopped prunes, 1-2 bay leaves, 1 tbsp. l. tomato paste, pepper and salt to taste.
   
   
8. Add 500 ml hot water. Then mix all the ingredients well and close the lid.
   
   
9. Set the "extinguishing" mode and the time to 1.5 hours.
   
   
10. Serve at the table with a side dish.
    
    

How and what to submit

This dish should be served with a side dish, almost all cereals will suit it. You can also make mashed potatoes. In my opinion, the combination of meat and potatoes is the perfect taste. Moreover, both stewed, fried or boiled.

Also, for meat with prunes, any pasta. To make this high-calorie dish lighter, serve it with fresh vegetables or a vegetable salad. The meat "loves" the sauce, but in this case, the role of the sauce is played by the gravy. In addition, prunes are a rather complex product; one or another sauce may not be suitable for it.

Video recipe for cooking beef with prunes in a slow cooker

• Meat must be fried in a very hot bowl. So it will be softer and softer.
• If you do not want to fry in a slow cooker, you can fry the meat with onions in a pan. And stew already directly in the slow cooker.
• Those who like spicy and spicy dishes can add spices and seasonings to taste. For example, chili peppers, dried herbs or garlic.

Recipe Options

What do you think is the best multicooker? What seasonings do you usually add to beef? I would be grateful if you answer my questions in the comments. Bon appetit!

Meat with the addition of dried fruits acquires completely new flavors. You can experiment with these combinations almost endlessly. And the “smart pan” will simplify the task of the cook. How to cook beef with prunes in a slow cooker is described further.

From seasonings, it is worth using nutmeg and ground black pepper - a pinch each. Other ingredients: 870 g beef, 155 g dried prunes (pitted), 2 onions, salt, carrots, 5-6 garlic cloves, 1 tbsp. filtered water.

1. The meat is washed and cut into small pieces. In the baking program, it is lightly browned in vegetable oil.
2. Next, the beef is fried already with chopped onions and carrots.
3. It remains to salt the mass, pour water, sprinkle with spices and cook in the “Stew” program for 60-65 minutes.
4. Next, crushed garlic and prunes, cut into thin strips, are placed in the container.
5. It is left on heating for another 20-25 minutes.

The dish goes well with any light side dish.

How to cook with white wine?

Both red and white wine are chosen for pouring beef with dried fruits. But for this recipe, you need to choose the latter. Ingredients: half a kilo of beef tenderloin, 80 g of prunes, 90 ml of white wine, 2 onions, 280 ml of broth, garlic to taste, 2 large spoons of light flour, salt.

1. The tenderloin is cut into small pieces.
2. For several minutes, the slices are fried in oil in a well-heated pan over high heat.
3. The meat is set aside, and chopped onions and garlic are cooked on the remaining fat already in a slow cooker in a suitable mode.
4. Beef, small pieces of prunes, wine are sent to the container for frying.
5. When the alcoholic drink boils away, flour can be introduced.
6. After thorough mixing, the ingredients are poured with broth and salted.
7. In the extinguishing mode, it cooks for 55-60 minutes.

in tomato sauce

Tomato sauce will add brightness and juiciness to the dish. Ingredients: 360 g of meat tenderloin, 2 medium carrots, 90 g of pitted prunes, 2 large onions, 60-70 ml of tomato paste, a couple of garlic cloves, a special mixture of spices for beef.

1. In the “Frying” mode, thin onion rings and carrot sticks are reddened.
2. When the vegetables are sufficiently fried, sliced ​​beef is laid out to them. Together, the components are cooked with frequent stirring for a quarter of an hour.
3. Whole prunes are poured into the container.
4. pouring out from above tomato paste and a glass of warm water.
5. In the stewing program, the dish languishes for 60-65 minutes.
6. Approximately 10 minutes before readiness, the treat is salted, sprinkled with seasoning and chopped garlic.

Meat is served with lots of fresh herbs.

With added potatoes

To turn the dish into a full meal, add potatoes to the meat with dried fruits. Ingredients: 180 g prunes, a pound of beef tenderloin, 4-5 medium potatoes, carrots and onions each, salt, spices, 3 multi-cooker glasses of filtered water, a large spoonful of flour.

1. In the classic frying mode, pieces of meat are cooked.
2. To the beef, which has had time to be covered with a light crust, onion cubes are poured out, and after another 3-4 minutes of frying, carrot and prunes straws, potatoes, cut in any convenient way.
3. IN warm water flour, salt and spices are bred. The resulting liquid is poured over meat with vegetables.
4. Stew 60-65 minutes.

If more potatoes are used, then the amount of water will need to be increased. Otherwise, there will be no gravy in the container at all.

With mushrooms

Both forest and greenhouse mushrooms are suitable. It is best to take champignons (240 g). The rest of the ingredients: 90 g of prunes, a pound of meat, large carrots, salt, onions, a mixture of peppers.

1. Pieces of meat, together with chopped carrots and onions, are fried in the appropriate program until golden brown.
2. Thin slices of mushrooms are added to the ingredients. Together, the components are cooked for another 8-9 minutes.
3. Prunes are laid out in the "smart pan" as a whole.
4. The components are poured with a small amount of water, salted and peppered. 1 cup of liquid will be enough.
5. The dish is stewed for 65 minutes.

Delicious served with mashed potatoes or simply with homemade bread.

With nuts in a multicooker

From nuts it is better to choose walnuts. Ingredients: 780 g beef tenderloin, half a glass of prunes and nuts, 60 ml of dry red wine, salt, aromatic herbs.

1. Thin slices of beef are lightly beaten and fried in a pan over high heat like regular chops.
2. Nuts chopped with a sharp knife are roasted in a separate dry dish.
3. Prepared meat, halves of prunes are laid out in the multicooker bowl, wine is poured.
4. When the liquid in the baking mode has completely evaporated from the container, you can pour in a little salty water and leave the treat to stew for half an hour.
5. It remains to fill in the nuts, add seasonings and cook the dish for another 8-9 minutes in the same mode.

1. The meat sticks are fried until golden brown in the bowl of the "smart pan".
2. Prunes can be added whole or in halves to beef.
3. The onion is cut very finely and poured into the bowl.
4. It remains to add sour cream, salt, spices and a little water (about 50 ml).
5. After mixing all the ingredients, simmer for 120 minutes.

To taste, you can add ground pepper and chopped garlic to the finished dish.

Stewed beef with prunes in a slow cooker

In addition to prunes, take dried apricots for this option. Ingredients: 90 g of dried fruits, 1 multi-cooker glass of broth, large onion, salt, a pound of beef tenderloin, a pinch of nutmeg.

1. In an ordinary frying pan over high heat, pieces of meat are fried to a crust. You need to pour a lot of oil into it.
2. On the remaining fat, onions are already sautéed in a slow cooker. Beef is laid out to the finished vegetable.
3. It remains to add the broth, salt, nutmeg, and washed dried fruits. You can leave them whole or finely chop them.
4. It will languish in the "Extinguishing" program for 85-90 minutes.

Surely a dish called "beef with prunes" is known to many. At one time it was mega-popular with Soviet housewives, and even now, many years later, it has not lost its relevance.

Beef stew with prunes is a very tasty and simple dish, it can be cooked not only on the stove, but also in the simplest slow cooker, where there are "Frying" and "Stew" modes. Today I will cook beef with prunes in this way.

To cook beef with prunes in a slow cooker, prepare the ingredients according to the list.

Cut the meat into cubes, carrots into thin sticks, and onions into half rings. Put everything in the multicooker bowl, add vegetable oil and stir. Turn on the "Frying" mode and cook with the lid open until the end of the cycle, for my multicooker it is 15 minutes.

After signaling the end of the program, add spices and salt to the meat and vegetables.

Also add washed prunes. If the prunes are large, you can cut the berries in half. Stir.

At the very end, add water or broth. There should be very little liquid so that it only covers the rest of the ingredients. In a standard 5 liter cup, that's about 2 cups. Close the lid of the multicooker and turn on the "Extinguishing" mode. Usually this mode is 1 hour.

10 minutes before cooking, add chopped garlic to the stew. You can optionally add a couple of tablespoons of flour fried until creamy. I usually add to thicken the stew, but this is optional. Close the lid and wait for the end of the program signal.

Beef with prunes, cooked in a slow cooker, is ready! Serve hot with your favorite side dishes or fresh vegetables.